A digital commonplace for a Regular Guy called Charlie Pharis

How Well Do We (USAmericans) Know the Bill of Righ…

How Well Do We (USAmericans) Know the Bill of Rights?

Read what John Whitehead has to say.

He includes this amazing and tragic anecdote from Nat Hentoff…

“A young attorney, preparing to address a small gathering about the need to protect freedom, especially in the schools, wrote the text of the First Amendment on a blackboard. After carefully reading the text, a woman in the audience approached the attorney, pointed to the First Amendment on the board and remarked, �My, the law is really changing. Is this new?� The woman was a retired schoolteacher.”

How Well Do We (USAmericans) Know the Bill of Righ…

How Well Do We (USAmericans) Know the Bill of Rights?

Read what John Whitehead has to say.

He includes this amazing and tragic anecdote from Nat Hentoff…

“A young attorney, preparing to address a small gathering about the need to protect freedom, especially in the schools, wrote the text of the First Amendment on a blackboard. After carefully reading the text, a woman in the audience approached the attorney, pointed to the First Amendment on the board and remarked, �My, the law is really changing. Is this new?� The woman was a retired schoolteacher.”